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Aalto Networking Platform
Aalto Networking Platform
The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas. We bring together experts in science, technology, arts and business, across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.
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Mission and vision
Our key activities focus on bringing researchers together and supporting multi- and cross-disciplinary initiatives
Highlights
Featured stories, events, and other content by the Aalto Networking Platform.
Designs for a Cooler Planet
Annual exhibition series envisioning sustainable futures through creative concepts
Health Talks: Founder, Entrepreneur, Licensee
Comparing alternative paths toward research commercialization
Your research, your photos: The Photography Online Course for Scientists
Photography Online Course for Scientists (POCS) consists of tutorial videos, assignments, quizzes and designed for independent learning. The course developed with support of Aalto Online Learning by professional photography trainer Tiina Puputti and course producer Valeria Azovskaya
Key research areas
Learn more about activities in the seven key research areas of Aalto University.
Advanced energy solutions
The main research focus in energy research are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.
Arts and design knowledge-building
Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in art and design knowledge building.
ICT and digitalisation
Digital technologies like AI and 5G cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.
Global business dynamics
Research related to global economy dynamics is carried out in the areas of business, economics, and industrial engineering and management.
Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing focus areas include biomedical engineering, neuroscience, biomaterials, digital health, and health management and design.
Human-centred living environments
Research in this area aims to understand how individuals experience their physical environment and how art, spaces, buildings and communities can enhance it.
Materials and sustainable use of natural resources
Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.
Related events
All upcoming events related to the Aalto Networking Platform.
Visiting lecture by John Gero: "Your mind and brain on design"
John Gero presents the results of studying the minds and brains of designers from architecture, engineering and industrial design while they design.
Creative Technologies
The series of seminars focusing on creative technologies started in Autumn 2022 at Aalto University.
Interplanetary Gender and Technology Workshop - a Collective Speculative Exploration
What are the emancipatory possibilities of everyday technologies?
Visiting lecture by Daniel Berio: "Procedural and computer aided design of graffiti art and calligraphy"
This visiting lecture belongs to the Creative Technologies community events at Aalto University.
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Related news
All news related to the Aalto Networking Platform.
AI boosts usability of paper-making waste product
Lignin, a side product of wood pulping, is funnelled into new bioproducts with the help of AI
University lecturer Janne Halme: Solar energy is awesome!
Janne Halme is inspired by a linden alley; a combination of trees, leaves and light filtering through them. Even though the solar cell can generate electricity, it cannot replace life-sustaining photosynthesis.
Lab-grown pigments and food by-products: The future of natural textile dyes
As the environmental impact of the fashion and textile industries becomes clearer, the demand and need for sustainable alternatives is growing. One international research group aims to replace toxic synthetic dyes with natural alternatives, ranging from plants to microbes to food waste.